Nigeria, May 2 -- The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State has released the results of its screening of aspirants for local government council elections.

The APC in the state had conducted a screening examination for aspirants.

The examination, held on April 22, was supervised by a 17-member panel, including four professors, several PhD holders and lawyers.

The aspirants were told to write biographical essay on their lives, schools attended, work experiences, places lived or visited within the state, Nigeria and abroad.

According the APC, the essence of the exercise was to screen out incompetent aspirants as well as those with questionable credentials and deficiencies that have the tendencies of exposing the party to post-e...